Tacos. Nice.

this week i learned:

1 How to make 200 honduran tacos in less than a day

2 How to replicate the most amazing drink on the planet

3 the lyrics to Let it go. Which i sang at a talent show and wowed everyone with my backflips and singing skills. #wutwut

no but really. I had a great week. There were a few disappointments but we're still goin strong! 

So, before, there were two zones in Quevedo. Quevedo North and Quevedo South. Buuuut missionaries arent arriving and about 20 missionaries went home last week so the combined the 2 zones and we  have to have our Zone meetings in Quevedo South. Which is fine. Buuuut we have to take 3 different buses to get there and we got lost on our way there this weeek. AND i left the cellphone on one of the buses. so we were stressing out lottttttts

We got to our zone meeting an hour late and phoneless. We walked all day without a phone and we were praying for a miracle. well, i had the idea to do a real specific prayer with tons of faith, asking god that a good person would be able to find the phone and want to return it. 

Lender, is one of our investigators who is the most receptive to the spirit. Well he called our phone. Not knowing why he needed to talk to us, and a girl who studies in Quevedo heard the phone ring and answered it. They arranged a meeting and We got our phone back within 2 days. It was an absolute miracle. (it probably helped that our background picture is of Jesus hahahh) 

we love jesus

Encebollado

                                              my lyfe is walking down dirt streets.  and i love it

There is a man that passes all day outside his house watering the street with a hose. the road he lives on is a dirt road in a semi jungley part. and i dont undestand why he is always out side doing that. But we decided to ask him why he does it. and he looked at us and said "I dont like dust" (No me gusta el polvo)

and he went back to work. I thought about that and there are alot of times in our lives where we focus on the things we dont like. the things we want. the things we wish we had, and we dont see the precious things were missing out on. That mans children were playing catch outside alone. Without their dad. That taught me a lesson about Gratitude and showing it through our words and actions. I have lots of things to be grateful for, as do all of us.

i wanna share a quote from a talk by thomas S Monson concerning this:

 “Both abundance and lack of abundance exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend … when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s presentlove, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us happiness the wasteland of illusion falls away andwe experience heaven on earth.”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/finding-joy-in-the-journey?lang=eng

Look up the talk. Its way good. i hope you guys give your thanks for the little things and take advantage of the chances you get as you get them. and not when its too late. Love you all! Have a great week :)

Hermana Johnson